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Chip Hall of Fame: Signetics NE555
A humble timer chip that became the Swiss Army knife of countless circuits
Chip Hall of Fame: Western Digital WD1402A UART
Freeing processors from doing the grunt work of communications accelerated the connected world
Video Friday: Crashen Hoppers, Gimball Games, and a Fake Moon Landing
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
The Three Factors That Doomed Kemper County IGCC
Clean coal technology suffered a setback when efforts to start up the gasification portion of an IGCC plant in Mississippi were halted
Modeling of Complex Ultrasonic Motors for Controller Design
The phenomena created in which ultrasonic waves with high frequencies are produced are difficult to capture in a model. This whitepaper discusses how Maple’s advanced calculation capabilities supported this process
A $2 Million Contest Seeks a Real-World Pied Piper to Solve Big Internet Challenges
As fictional geniuses in HBO's "Silicon Valley" seek to reinvent the Internet, Mozilla and the NSF offer $2 million in prizes to decentralize it in the real world
An Early Door to Cyberspace: The Computer Memory Terminal
Reading listings on the bulletin-board system was free, but posting cost a quarter
Carbon Nanotubes Reduce Transistor Footprint to Forty Nanometers
Nanotubes offer a path towards meeting an ITRS benchmark a decade from now
Magnetic Eye Implant Stops Dancing Eyes Syndrome
British researchers cure a man's rare eye disorder by implanting magnets beneath his eyes
Smart Transformers Will Make the Grid Cleaner and More Flexible
The solid-state transformer is poised to remake the electrical distribution grid
Driverless Tech Startups Are Driving Past a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Millions of conventional cars rolling off assembly lines today could benefit from automated driving technologies. But where are the startups to build those systems?
Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We've Ever Seen
The extreme saltatorial skills of this "hyper-aggressive pogo-stick" will amaze you
Vaccination: The Best Return on Investment
How good is the return? Try 44-fold—yep, that’s 4,400 percent
Hedge Funds Look to Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing for Competitive Advantage
Hedge funds are testing new quantitative strategies that could supplant traditional fund managers
AI to Ensure Fewer UFOs
To respond to a plague of drones, airports and other venues deploy AI systems to track and identify intruders
China’s Big Tech Advantage Is Speed, Not Cost
HAX’s Ben Joffe takes a look at what’s going on in China’s startup sector
UC Berkeley Releases Massive Dex-Net 2.0 Dataset
A dataset of 6.7 million robust point clouds and grasps can train your neural network to reliably pick up objects
Meet the Authors of a Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman wrote the first biography of the digital pioneer
How Digitalization is Transforming the Electronics Industry
Learn more about how digitalization is disrupting and changing the way we do business today, and how you can quickly take advantage of this disruption.
A Software Shrink: Apps and Wearables Could Usher In an Era of Digital Psychiatry
Data is about to revolutionize the treatment of depression, schizophrenia, and many other disorders
Want to Make Sure Your Teen Doesn't Exceed the Speed Limit? Tell Your Car to Do That for You
Derive is taking technology that lets hot rodders soup up their vehicles and using it to make drivers behave themselves
Anki's Code Lab Brings Sophisticated Graphical Programming to Cozmo Robot
With an easy-to-use interface based on MIT's Scratch, you can command Cozmo to do complex tasks without any programming experience
Ferroelectric Domain Wall Memory Shows Its Promise
Where ferromagnetic domain wall memory fell short, the ferroelectric variety is ready to pick up the slack
Rigetti Launches Full-Stack Quantum Computing Service and Quantum IC Fab
A startup challenging Google and IBM sees opportunities for quantum computing in both the short term and long run
Personal Transportation Gadgets: Hot. Integrated Smart Home IoT: Not
HAX executives preview trends in hardware startups
Tourette Syndrome Patient: My Life With a Brain Implant
Deep brain stimulation for Tourette's is experimental, but showing promising results
For the First Time, Wind Power Will Be Profitable Without Subsidies
In Europe, new tech boosts the appeal of previously pricey offshore wind
How I Built an AI to Sort 2 Tons of Lego Pieces
A GPU-based neural network was the only way to handle a garage full of Lego
Video Friday: Self-Driving Potato, NASA at Mars, and Autonomous Sumo Robots
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Silicon Valley’s Latest Craze: Brain Tech
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other big Silicon Valley players want to make commercial gadgets for your brain
Riding in a Robocar That Sees Around Corners
Car-to-car communication serves as a sixth sense—or is it a seventh?
What Does Your Smart Meter Know About You?
It may be more than you’d like
The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer
How a desire for corporate synergy gave rise to the “embarrassing” TI 99/4
The Inside Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor
The TMS9900 could have powered the PC revolution. Here’s why it didn’t
Startup Profile: Plex.ai Aims to Shake Up Auto Insurance With AI and the Blockchain
The Canadian company wants to use AI to rate your car insurance risk in real time
Shut Up About the Batteries: The Key to a Better Electric Car Is a Lighter Motor
The trick is to make a motor that can tweak its magnetic fields to run more efficiently
Are Telepresence Robots the Best Way to Explore Other Worlds?
The most efficient way to exploring other planets may be sending humans to orbit, and letting robots do everything else
E-Mosquito Drinks Your Blood to Keep You Healthy
The wearable microsystem “bites” the wrist of patients with diabetes to autonomously monitor blood glucose levels
Drone “Fireworks,” 5G communications, and Streaming VR Coming to Olympic Games
Intel says its new Olympics sponsorship is about “changing the experience” for the digital generation
Watch This Robot Navigate Like a Rat
Specialized neurons in a rat’s brain may be the key to autonomous robot navigation
Henry Markram Talks Brain Simulation
The preliminary work for simulating the human brain is already under way
The Human Brain Project Reboots: A Search Engine for the Brain Is in Sight
The massive €1 billion project has shifted focus from simulation to informatics
In the General AI Challenge, Teams Compete for $5 Million
Nearly 400 teams have already signed up to create an AI with true generalized intelligence
Testing PAs under Digital Predistortion and Dynamic Power Supply Conditions
In this white paper series, you will learn different techniques for testing PAs via an interactive white paper with multiple how-to videos
Global Race Toward Exascale Will Drive Supercomputing, AI to Masses
Personalized medicine, self-driving cars, big data, AI, and machine learning will mainstream supercomputing
Plotting a Moore’s Law for Flexible Electronics
A five-year project at Imec aims to make big boosts in the density of thin-film transistor circuitry
Multitasking: Why Do We Do It?
We complain about split attention, but why then do we embrace distraction?
Montreal-based Startup Ora Releases Novel Graphene-Based Headphones
At last, a killer app for the nanocomposite miracle material?
Robocar Movie From Pre-Talkie Days
The most amazing prediction was that of legal roadblocks
When Innovation Moves Too Fast
We can adopt technologies early, but adaptation takes time
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